Third POV__________

Iruka' s class was out side in the training grounds.

Iruka was explaining the rules for the spars and how they were going to greet each other in the ring.

Naruto was excitedly bouncing on the balls of his feet a bright smike plastered on his face.

To be honest he looked adorable as he waited for his turn.

Iruka began calling out names and the fights had started. Most children were using the basic academy taijutsu and some even t their clans style taijutsu.

Kiba was currently fighting against a civilian kid and was totally kicking his butt. Naruto was excited for his turn.

"Naruto do you want to participate? You are new and I haven't gone over basic academy taijutsu lessons with you yet." Iruka sensei asked and Naruto nodded excitedly.

"I can fight, my mama has been training me down to the bone so I could be caught up." He responeded. When he heard some snickering.

"He still calls his mom, mama probably a big mommy's boy." A civilian kid teased and Naruto frowned.

Why did he find that funny? He was very happy to have a mama who took care of him and gave him a home. Better than  living alone in his old apartment in the red light district.

Iruka frowned at the student and told him to be quiet if he wasn't going to say something nice.

"Match, Kiba wins." Iruka called out as he wrote down notes on the battle.

"Alrighty then Naruto and Chikore." Iruka called out the next two fighters. Since he didn't know Naruto's strength he paired him with a civilian and not a heavy hitter like Sasuke or the other clan heads.

Chikore snickered. "Alright the  mommy's boy get ready."

Naruto frowned he didn't like the tone Chikore was using. They both stepped into the ring on opposite sides.

They walked towards each other and did the unison symbol while Iruka began the match.

Naruto was nimble. He quickly dodged chikore' s attacks. Being that he always trained with a stronger and faster opponent who usually gave him a beat down gave him the advantage.

The class seemed to perk up and watch the fight enthusiastically.

Iruka quickly jotted down notes and rated Naruto's tai jutsu.

Naruto was waiting for the moment to strike he was just to slippery for chikore to land a hit on.

The fight look one sided not many could tell that chikore wasn't landing any of the hits.

Naruto was grinning, 'man fighting someone that couldn't land a bit on you was fun and that's because hits usually hurt.'

He stepped forward quickly sweeping chikore's back leg and hitting his nose with his elbow before doing a spinning push kick right on his gut. As chikore fell Naruto landed one more kick on him right on the face efficiently knocking him out.

"Man, you're so slow." Naruto grinned as he waited for chikore to get up and continue fighting.

"Hurry up and get up, I barely even hit you." Naruto smiled as he rocked back and forth in his fighting stance waiting for chikore to get back up and fight.

Iruka quickly noticed Naruto had knocked chikore out. "Naruto wins, since chikore is unconscious he will be escorted to the nurses office." Iruka states as Mizuki the class assistant picked up the unconscious boy.

"Huh?! That's it? I thought he was a little hurt, and I'm not even that strong but he's out cold?" Naruto's jaw hung loose and pouted in disappointment.

"Naruto not everyone can get punched by a jonin in the face and get back up through sheer effort like you so relax. You got him good." Kiba teased Naruto sulked as he walked out of the ring.

"Ah, man I was really excited about the fight too." He groaned and Kiba laughed patting his back. "Ne, he tried his best."

Naruto sighed and nodded.

The matches continued and Naruto watched them all play out.

Soon enough they were running laps around the training ground, the boys of the class were running as fast as they could trying to be the fastest.

Kiba and Naruto were on the lead. Kiba being one of the fastest in the class and Naruto who spent nearly every day running around the forest were both neck to neck.

Even the stoic Sasuke was catching up to the two.

Iruka watched and recorded the speed of the students as a physical evaluation.

"A few more laps and then take a five minute break. We will start with practicing your taijutsu." Iruka stated as he paced them with his stop watch.

Naruto was grinning widely, all the running and exercising was fun. Better than being locked up in a classroom.

His mama always did physical exercise before studying that way he could focus more and pay attention. But that strategy didn't work for other students who had lower chakra amounts.

If they exercised and tired themselves out before studying they'd be too tired to pay attention and fall asleep so studying first exercising later was a better strategy for them.

In a way that was why poor Naruto couldn't sit still in class.

After conditioning they began practicing different taijutsu moves in pairs.

This time it was Sasuke and Naruto. Iruka figured since they were both strong they could definitely put up a good fight against each other.

Iruka instructed the way they would attack and the way the others were to dodge. The pairs quickly began practicing.

The first few times they started off slow to get the notion on how to move. But when they began to move faster and Naruto accidentally hit Sasuke a little too hard the real practicing began.

It was like they were both trying to see could hit the hardest and fastest. Naruto was grinning widely having fun this time around since his opponent was able to keep up with him.

Sasuke was paying attention on how he was moving and dodging to make sure he learned the technique correctly.

Some of the kids slowed down and watched as both of them hit each other harshly and left bruises whenever they landed a hit.

Iruka watched from the sideline. They weren't doing the excersie incorrectly but they were landing some solid hits on each other.

"Naruto, Sasuke your point is not trying to hurt your opponent but to learn the moves. " Iruka called out making them stop.

"Gomen, sensei." They both bowed and started off again hitting lightly and fast.

Half an hour later Iruka brought the class back into the building.

As the students packed their things Iruka reminded them what the homework was.

He then dismissed them when the bell rang.

Naruto quickly walked up to Sasuke, stopping him from leaving. Sakura and Ino were hot on Sasuke's trail that's why he had been speed walking.

"Hey Sasuke-san. You are really good at taijutsu. I was wondering if you wanted to be my sparing buddy. Kiba and I usually spar but you're a good fighter too. And your fighting style is very different than Kiba's." Naruto smiled, Sasuke frowned and snickered.

He gave a curt nod "hnn" and quickly left. Naruto was confused. So was that a yes or a no?

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